Australia’s political leaders must make clearer, bolder commitments to funding innovation and the systems needed to exploit it as global competition for new industries reaches unprecedented levels, outgoing Science...
Influential industry group Science and Technology Australia will have completely new leadership next year, with Professor Sharath Sriram on Tuesday taking the reigns as president as the search for...
High profile Science and Technology Australia (STA) chief executive Misha Schubert has resigned from the STEM sector professional association to take up another CEO role elsewhere from February next year....
Indigenous knowledge has been omitted as a standalone priority from a draft version of Australia’s new national science and research priorities, creating a “massive gap” that experts say will...
Advocacy group Science and Technology Australia says a new tax incentive might be the best way to drive “systemic shifts” in employee diversity within Australia’s largest companies and improve...
Every dollar invested by the Australian Research Council in university research over the last two decades contributed more than $3 to the economy, according to a new evaluation of...
Science and Technology Australia are calling on the federal government to establish a $20 billion “locked box of capital” which the peak body estimates could contribute up to $2.3...
RMIT University researcher and commercialisation leader Professor Sharath Sriram has been elected as president-elect at Science and Technology Australia as part of a broader board-renewal at the peak representative...
The gender pay gap persists across all STEM industries as women continue to be underrepresented in senior leadership roles, according to the latest edition of the federal government’s STEM...
As business leaders, unions, and decision-makers meet at the Jobs and Skills Summit, Australia faces a ‘Sliding Doors’ moment. We can either invest in science to seize huge opportunities...